Getting started with The Shūyō App
Two minutes, once only, and your practice lives on your phone.
New here? This is the install guide for The Shūyō App: learn about the app and join there first.
- Open Safari and type reikiwithbronwen.com/shuyo-app into the address bar at the top, then tap Go. It must be typed into Safari itself, not opened from a link in an email or the Google app; typing is what makes the install work.
- Tap the Share button, the little square with the arrow pointing up, at the bottom of the screen or under the three dots at the bottom left.
- Tap the three dots at ‘more’ and scroll the list to tap Add to Home Screen, scrolling a little further if you don’t see it at first. Then tap Add. The crimson blossom appears on your home screen. That is the whole install.
- Open the app from its new icon. Tap Already practising with us? Sign in here and sign in with your email and the password you set at reikiwithbronwen.com/my-account. You sign in once, and the app remembers you; you will rarely need to do it again.
- When the app asks about reminders, tap Yes please. Your phone will then double-check with its own little message; tap Allow there too. Then scroll to Your Reminder Times and tap the times that suit you. Your practice will arrive at exactly those times, in your own timezone.
- Open Chrome and type reikiwithbronwen.com/shuyo-app into the address bar at the top, then tap Go.
- Tap the three dots at the top right, then tap Add to Home screen (on some phones it says Install app), then confirm.
- Open the app from its new icon. Tap Already practising with us? Sign in here and sign in with your email and password, tap Yes please and then Allow when your phone double-checks, and choose your reminder times.
Inside the installed app, always sign in with your password. The one-tap sign-in links we sometimes email are lovely in a browser, but your phone opens them in Safari rather than in the app. So in the app itself, the password is your door, and once through, the app remembers you.
That is completely fine. The Shūyō App is also an ordinary webpage: sign in at reikiwithbronwen.com/shuyo-app in any browser, on any device, and everything is there, your practice, your journal, your whole path.
On a computer or an Android phone you can even receive your practice reminders this way: when the app page asks about reminders, tap Yes please and choose your times. On an iPhone, reminders are the one thing that needs the two-minute install above, as Apple only delivers them to apps on your home screen.
The app looks out of date or will not sign in: delete just the app icon from your home screen (press and hold, Remove App, Delete from Home Screen), then add it again from Safari using the steps above. Your account and your progress are safe on our side, always.
Reminders stopped arriving: open the app and, if it offers the reminder question again, tap Yes please, then re-tap your times on the Your Reminder Times card.
Still stuck? Write to me through the site and we will sort it out together.
NOW
One breath, and today begins again
The Shūyō App is your morning and your evening, sat down and chosen. NOW is for the rest of the day: the moment something goes wrong, someone says the thing, and sitting down to practise is not possible.
You press the flower while you breathe in and let go while you breathe out. It follows your own breathing rather than setting a pace for you, and each out-breath grows a little longer than the last. There is nothing to keep up and nothing to fail at. It comes with your subscription and needs no separate sign-in.
You will find it inside The Shūyō App, under Your Reminder Times, whenever you want it. And it is worth making it quicker to reach than that.
Your iPhone can open NOW when you tap the back of it twice, from any screen, without unlocking. Worth the three minutes, because the moment you need this is the moment you will not want to go looking for it.
- Open the Shortcuts app, which is already on your phone, and tap + to make a new shortcut.
- Search for the action Open URLs and add it. Where it says URL, type reikiwithbronwen.com/now
- Tap the name at the top, call it NOW, and save.
- Go to Settings → Accessibility → Touch, scroll right to the bottom and tap Back Tap. Choose Double Tap, then pick NOW from the list.
Now tap the back of your phone twice and see. The first time it may ask permission to open your browser; tap Open, or Always Allow if it offers. Back Tap needs an iPhone 8 or newer, and it does not work while the phone is in Low Power Mode.
Please do not add NOW to your home screen on an iPhone. Apple treats both pages as one app, so a NOW icon there can open The Shūyō App instead. The double back tap is the reliable way.
- Open Chrome and type reikiwithbronwen.com/now into the address bar at the top, then tap Go.
- Tap the three dots at the top right, then Add to Home screen, and confirm.
Its blossom then sits beside your Shūyō icon, one tap away.
That is perfectly fine. Open The Shūyō App and the flower is there waiting, under Your Reminder Times. Nothing to set up, nothing to remember.